Hodge Podge
England is located on this continent.
Europe
Year Jamestown was settled
1607
Powhatan Indians were found in this region. Native Americans lived throughout Virginia.
Tidewater/Coastal Plain
Africans were brought against their will to help expand this economy (hint: cash crop)
Tobacco
This person named the native people Indians.
Columbus
arrowheads, tools, pottery
The English came to the New World hoping to find _______. They wanted to increase their wealth and power.
silver and gold
They did not find any silver or real gold. They did find raw materials (timber/iron).
Powhatan Indians spoke this language.
Algonquian
Africans were brought against their will from
Angola
Survival skills
hunting, farming, fishing
King who granted a charter for settlement in the new world
King James I
Reasons settlers chose the site at Jamestown
easily defended from possible Spanish attack, deep water for docking ships, believed it had a good supply of fresh drinking water (also inland and suitable for a colony based on England's instructions)
Chief of many tribes - strong leader - helped settlers develop survival skills
Chief Powhatan
These people were brought to Jamestown in 1619. They helped to build families and make the colony more permanent.
Women
Person who studies artifacts from the past
Archeologist
Company that funded the voyage to the New World
Virginia Company of London
Strong leader who adopted a forced work policy - if you don't work, you don't eat
John Smith
Daughter of Chief Powhatan who helped facilitate contact between the settlers and natives
Pocahontas
A representative government represents the
people (there in the colony)
What Native Americans did for food during the spring
fished and picked berries
(some hunting)
starvation, disease, contaminated drinking water, lacked survival skills
Settlers wanted ____________ when they traded.
food, fur, leather
Powhatan Indians wanted ________ when they traded.
tools, pots, copper jewelry
The first representative government in the New World was called the
General Assembly
(representatives = Burgesses)
Name all eight state recognized tribes of Virginia today
Monocan, Rappahannock, Chickahominy, Upper Mattaponi, Pamunkey, Mattaponi, Eastern Chickahominy, Nansemond